Went to a cocktail bar last night fully intending to order a cocktail.

[jschauma@mstdn.social]

@NudelnAlDente New coffee place opened up around the corner. Went in there, nobody pays me any attention, no obvious line to order, no cash register. I’m told I can scan a QR code to download an app to place an order. Walked across the street to next place instead.

[florapis@toot.wales]

@NudelnAlDente we currently want to buy several fruit trees. Our nearest supplier is only on facebook‍️

[kaito02@mastodon.social]

@kinsey @NudelnAlDente normies who don't know they could just make a website instead of relying on big social media to host for them

[doomstrike@metalhead.club]

@NudelnAlDente
Yeah those businesses can f**k right off. I don't have an insta or facebook account and have noticed recently neither will allow me view anything, which I'm happy with. I don't mind telling people I can't open their link.
I very very rarely would click on a tik tok and never anything x. I have x blocked in browser so often see news stories with loads of blocked panel. It tends to be the "news" not worth reading in that case.
Youtube I still tolerate

[artharg@mastodon.nl]

@epicdemiologist @NudelnAlDente I can understand the restaurant. There’s inconsiderate types who make advance reservations at five or six places and then see what their mood is come dinner. They don’t bother to cancel the other restaurants. Result is that those may have turned away other customers. Asking for a phone number allows them at least to call like “Hey, you’re 30 mins late, should we still hold the table?”. Also, not being anonymous is a bit of a deterrent from being a selfish prick.

[raganwald@social.bau-ha.us]

@heafnerj “I tried it and somewhere in the process a hidden app (forgot the name at the moment) was silently downloaded and installed on my iPhone without my knowledge or consent.”

That is incredibly bad.

@NudelnAlDente

[bwaz@mastodon.online]

@NudelnAlDente
Ditto.
And also, for me, if your only store is on Amazon, I'll be going to one of your competitors. Even if more expensive.

[oldclumsy_nowmad@mastodon.social]

@NudelnAlDente

Ah, the Internet. Savior of businesses. Wonderful, magical entity that communicates for us, so we don't have to get headaches from thinking too much or wasting time talking to people. Transformative shepherd, on the verge of an AI "singularity" which will mean we don't have to think at all.

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[nicolasconstant@cosocial.ca]

@NudelnAlDente I've experienced the same lately... Fancy Cocktail bar also, with some "speakeasy gamification" to enter. At some point we had to find a "hint" on their Instagram and went into the same issue than you.

The issue is... youngsters do consider not having an Instagram account as completely absurd. It's totally possible that this way of forcing you to check their IG helps the business.

[thenovemberman@bookstodon.com]

@NudelnAlDente

[webidebi@mastodon.social]

@utf_7 very sad

[pattykimura@beige.party]

@NudelnAlDente

This is crazy. I know of a coin-op laundry vendor who is swapping all coin machines into debit - kiosk pay machines in ELDERLY low income housing. Many are in their 80s who have no idea how to use this kind of tech, don't have debit cards or cell phones or know how to swipe or know what a kiosk is. They have to do laundry, have no cars, and have incontinence, and will stop doing wash, get infections and be relegated to the humiliation of filth because some corporate younger person decided to eliminate the human job of emptying the coins to increase profit.

I hate this.

[psh@infosec.exchange]

@NudelnAlDente agreed. It’s incredibly easy to build a free website these days and instagram/facebook is less and less relevant so, to me, it’s a head scratcher.

Especially now that the web version locks out non-account viewers. If it’s absolutely needed there are anonymous viewers like https://flufi.me/ or https://gramsnap.com/en/instagram-viewer/ .

[karl55@troet.cafe]

@NudelnAlDente I often find the same thing in restaurants: a QR code instead of a menu. And that’s it – I’m out of there.

[erik@mastodon.infrageeks.social]

@NudelnAlDente FFS: a static web page somewhere on the internet is effectively free. If your marketing team insists on using Instagram, just use your posts to point to that page.

Also: if your marketing team insists on using Instagram as the sole point of entry, fire them and find some who really understands marketing

[adammoe2022@c.im]

@NudelnAlDente I’ve walked out of several places in the past couple of years when they don’t accept cash. This kind of thing just makes it impossible for people of lesser means to buy a cup of coffee. It pisses me off a whole lot.

[heafnerj@mstdn.social]

@DMTomas @raganwald @NudelnAlDente I wouldn't mind doing that myself...

[heafnerj@mstdn.social]

@raganwald @NudelnAlDente At the time it was, except to me, about this particular payment system but I hadn't heard about it. The apparently didn't know either so I really can't fault them.

[whitecattamer@mastodon.online]

@HeckinChonker @NudelnAlDente Gotta love those places with decor styled after the flashing adverts at the bottom of listicles. Overstimulation? Why, what’s that?

And heaven forbid you’re Deaf and trying to get a shake.

[raganwald@social.bau-ha.us]

@heafnerj @NudelnAlDente It occurred to me that it could be the vendor. Or a system that was compromised. So I tried to make a neutral, blameless comment.